Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 17, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
Nice find Lee!

Thanks to all of you DG moral supporters for me at the memory garden. You guys really give me a lift, as I know you all truly understand what kind of work this is. (Labor of love for sure.)

Kirby and I worked on it a couple hours after 6 last night, and today more help came. One of the teachers, her husband and two boys came and helped me plant today. I had prepared the ground as good as possible and set plants where they were to go, and they helped plant them. They left after working 2 hours. I got some more tilling in and planted the left side plants. Mulched a bit, watered everything in really well, and swept up.

It's a north facing courtyard...

Keep in mind some of these plants were donated without consulting me, lol!... Here is a list of what's there so far:
(left to right)

left side
1 Elderberry
2 Mexican Firebush
1 Turk's Cap Hib.
Canna

middle
48 Sweet Potato Vine
48 Vincas
24 Begonias
2 Asters
2 Salvia greggii, Purple
(Still want some Cherry Red S greggii, and left space for 4 of them)
Sedum, Autumn Joy
4 Daisies
1 Candletree
1 Hardy Hibiscus
Salvia farinacea
1 Amorpha fruiticosa
4 Duranta erecta

2 Passonvines (on the back lattices)

right
Blue Crown Passionvine
1 Asclepias curassavica
4 Lantanas
2 Ruta grav.
1 Fennel
1 Dill

**Still need an idea about where to plant an Aristolochia pipevine.** I still have room for more native butterfly plants along the back.

As the non-natives and not-butterfly plants die out, I will put in good natives as soon as I can get my blistered hands on them, lol.

I hope this pic comes out large enough for y'all to see this stiched 3 shot pan. The garden is not curved, I was just standing in the middle on all 3 shots...;-)



This message was edited May 24, 2009 8:04 PM